Not your normal Halloween night...

I don't think I mentioned how smoothly everything went with the kids when I went into labor. Liz (my awesome next door neighbor) came over in the morning and took care of the kids. Then my awesome friend Beckie came and got Luke and Emma and took them to Luke's baseball game. Meanwhile I texted my family to tell them I was in labor. I got a reply immediately from my awesome little sister that she and her family were actually IN ORLANDO for the day going to Disney with her sister-in-law! So again being the awesome sister and brother-in-law that they are, they rearranged their plans (ie. playing piano and helping with their primary program practice the next day) and they stayed the night at my house and watched the kids all day Sunday! What a relief! AND she cleaned and had my house all put together when I came home!!!!!! THANKS KIM!

Anyway, leading up to Halloween I had been dreading the fact that Halloween was on Sunday! In Utah it's a no brainer and everyone just trick-or-treats on Saturday night! Well here they might think I lost my mind and they wouldn't be prepared for trick-or-treaters. So I told my kids this year was going to be different and that the ward party on Friday night and the neighborhood party on Saturday was their Halloween. (Thus the nice part of me being the neighborhood party planner ;) I was soooo impressed because the kids didn't even complain ONE BIT! True they had a great distraction having little Eva make her arrival :) So instead Matt had bought "How to Train a Dragon" and we watched it together in my hospital room. It's kind of our tradition. When Emma was born Luke came and watched tv in my room, and when Gavin was born we watched Bambi in my room. It was a fun and VERY different Halloween!